Rosemary's baby retreat for couples

We watched Rosemary's Baby this week.  For those of you who may be unfamiliar, this is an award winning movie directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and made in 1968.  Netflix puts the movie in these genres, "Horror Classics, Satanic Stories, Psychological Thrillers."

For the late sixties, this movie must have been somewhat risque but it was the same year that Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, The Graduate, and 2001: A Space Odyssey were released. I don't want to give away too much so I'll just provide the vague description provided on several web sites:

A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

Weird though it was, I enjoyed it.  The Hitchcockian suspense really kept my attention in what would otherwise be something of a slow movie.

One other movie we watched this week was Couples Retreat.  This is Sandy's birthday weekend and, since I normally control the Netflix queue and populate it with "depressing" movies (Sandy's opinion), he wanted to pick out and watch bad movies.  Couples Retreat was one of two he picked and it got horrible reviews.  Indeed, we went into this movie expecting very bad things, which was probably its saving grace.  We actually found ourselves giggling in several parts.  Part of the reason for our finding it mildly funny could also be because we are a long-time married couple. Maybe after a long week anything is funny...